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The Guardian
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
‘The moon came into view and I searched for the perfect place to stand': Eric Kogan's best phone photo
New York-based photographer Eric Kogan took this picture on a family day of furniture and thrift-store hunting in Shelton, Connecticut, about a 90-minute drive from their Brooklyn home. En route, they stopped off in New Haven for a pizza. 'The city is famous for its top-notch pizza restaurants,' Kogan says. 'And the one we chose, Frank Pepe's, is rumoured to have invented the first-ever pizza box!' After lunch they continued on to Shelton, pulling into the large parking lot of a furniture sample store a little before 4pm. 'It was so tucked away that we kept questioning if we were heading in the right direction,' Kogan says. 'The moon came into view as we made our way to the entrance. The sun had just set and it was semi-daylight out. I searched for the perfect place to stand. I also had to underexpose the frame a bit, turning it down until the moon felt right: luminous and detailed against its subdued surroundings.' Kogan decided to leave the security cameras in the image untouched. 'It might have been cleaner without them, but, besides cropping and adjusting values, it's not in my practice to remove things from photos.' Kogan's wife, Melissa Breyer, is also a photographer; her image of a deli worker washing a window featured in a Smart shot column in 2022. Kogan insists that, partly because their styles are so different, there is no competition between the pair. 'Works by both of us travel to so many places that they've almost taken on a life of their own. We met through photography and our photos have found themselves to Smart shot independently. It doesn't get better than that!'
Washington Post
07-04-2025
- Business
- Washington Post
At Frank Pepe's, a century of coal, clams and thin-crust pizza
Frank Pepe had a decision to make in the early 1960s. With no sons to inherit the popular pizza shop he'd opened in 1925 in New Haven, Connecticut's Little Italy, it seemed like it was time to sell the business. His daughters, Elizabeth and Serafina, had other ideas. 'My mother and aunt went to him and said, 'Give us the business,'' recalls Jennifer Bimonte-Kelly, Frank's granddaughter, now 68. 'He didn't think that women could run it, but as an Italian man, he managed to put his views to the side and hear them out.' After all, his wife, Filomena, had already been handling the bookkeeping for 40 years at that point.
Yahoo
04-04-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Frank Pepe's honored for their lasting legacy in New Haven
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (WTNH) — Frank Pepe's Pizza is being honored for their lasting legacy in New Haven. Local couple opens New Haven pizza-themed Airbnb The Greater New Haven Chamber awarded the pizzeria Thursday with the Corporate Heritage Award, celebrating 100 years of excellence and cultural impact in our region. Frank Pepe immigrated to America in 1909. While working at a bakery on Wooster Street, he started making his own version of his classic 'apizza.' He eventually saved up enough for a wagon to sell it out of and then took over the bakery. Since then, Pepe's has opened locations across seven states. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
